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dawg

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18. Agreed.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #16)

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 02:58 PM

Jan 2012

Bob Dole, Howard Baker, even Poppa Bush were not anything like today's conservatives.

But today's conservatives are pieces of trash, and I'm not going to use that word without making my contempt for it apparent.

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Andrew Sullivan is Right: Obama Has Governed as a Conservative [View all] xchrom Jan 2012 OP

That is NOT the point of the Sullivan article Inuca Jan 2012 #1

It's not the point zipplewrath Jan 2012 #2

I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. auburngrad82 Jan 2012 #3

Why fiscal conservatism is bad. dawg Jan 2012 #8

Maybe I'm defining fiscal conservative differently auburngrad82 Jan 2012 #10

Austerity and fiscal conservatism aren't the same thing Major Nikon Jan 2012 #14

Remember, not much of anything is as offensive as the "c" word. dawg Jan 2012 #15

It wasn't always that way for conservatives Major Nikon Jan 2012 #16

Agreed. dawg Jan 2012 #18

We might as well have had McCain/Palin in the WH since 2009 Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2012 #4

Seeing how something like 86% of Democrats kctim Jan 2012 #5

If polls are reliable, then the Jan 14th poll showing Romney beating Gingrich by 25 points AnotherMcIntosh Jan 2012 #9

No shit. truebrit71 Jan 2012 #21

****BASHER LEAVES OUT THE EFFECTS OF CRAZY CONGRESS**** uponit7771 Jan 2012 #6

Pres O's detractors have to ignore any facts that might - AtomicKitten Jan 2012 #20

Pot/kettle theaocp Jan 2012 #22

lol AtomicKitten Jan 2012 #24

Respectfully, the first example was when he rejected the views of 27 Democrats AnotherMcIntosh Jan 2012 #7

occupy nt Zorra Jan 2012 #11

obviously - but not as rightwing as Clinton and no more rightwing than any credible Democratic Party Douglas Carpenter Jan 2012 #12

How did we go from liking people like David Sirota, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi.... Cali_Democrat Jan 2012 #13

What happened was the Obama presidency. MNBrewer Jan 2012 #23

Just another 3rd Way Dem president pandering to the right. As expected. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2012 #17

Some of Obama's policies have not been all too different from Bush's VKaz Jan 2012 #19